NCJ Number
231531
Journal
Violence Against Women Volume: 16 Issue: 8 Dated: August 2010 Pages: 881-901
Date Published
August 2010
Length
21 pages
Annotation
This article analyzes the occurrence and effects of domestic violence among Peruvian immigrant women in Chile by analyzing the life experience of Antonia, a Peruvian immigrant in Chile.
Abstract
This article is based on an analysis of the life history narrative of Antonia, a Peruvian immigrant in Chile, in the context of ethnographic research on Chilean women's experiences of domestic violence (DV) and the post-dictatorship state's responses to DV. Structural and socio-cultural constraints and forms of violence, including global and local economic inequalities, migration, racism, and intimate, gender-based abuses in both home and receiving countries interact in Antonia's experience to produce suffering and influence a form of gendered agency. This analysis points to the need for research and policies specifically designed to attend to the intersecting vulnerabilities migrant women who suffer DV often face, as well as their agentive acts. Notes and references (Published Abstract)